***Update: call for papers extended to March 21st***
We are excited to announce the *7th Laughter and Other Non-Verbal
Vocalisations Workshop* (bit.ly/LaughterWorkshop2024) on July 16-17 at
Queen’s University Belfast. The workshop will be a pre-conference event,
part of the 2024 Conference of the International Society for Research on
Emotion (www.isre2024.org).
Non-verbal vocalisations in human-human and human-machine interactions
play important roles in displaying social and affective behaviours and
in managing the flow of interaction. Laughter, sighs, clicks, filled
pauses, and short utterances such as feedback responses are among some
of the non-verbal vocalisations that are being increasingly studied from
various research fields. However, much is still unknown about the
phonetic or visual characteristics of non-verbal vocalisations
(production/encoding), their relations to the social actions they are
part of, their perceived meanings (perception/decoding), and their
ordering in interaction. Furthermore, with the increased interest for
more naturalness in human-machine interaction, current times also invite
exploring how these phenomena can be integrated in speech applications.
*Research themes* include, but are not restricted to, these aspects of
laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations:
• Articulation, acoustics, and perception
• Interaction and pragmatics
• Affective and evaluative meanings
• Social perception and organisation
• Disfluency
• Technology applications
Researchers are invited to submit *extended abstracts* (2 pages of
content and maximum one additional page for references and figures)
describing original work, including work in progress. The deadline for
submission is March 21st, 2024. More information about the submission
process can be found on our website (bit.ly/LaughterWorkshop2024).
There will be two *keynote presentations* on the topics treated by the
workshop, delivered by Prof. Carolyn McGettigan (University College
London, UK) and Prof. Margaret Zellers (Kiel University, Germany).
The workshop will be supported by the International Speech Communication
Association (ISCA), offering one travel grant for early career scientists.
Looking forward to receiving your contributions and welcoming you at the
workshop in July!
Best wishes,
The LW2024 Organising Committee
Bogdan Ludusan, Bielefeld University, Germany
Marina Cantarutti, University of York, United Kingdom
For further information or questions regarding the workshop you can
contact the organisers at the following email address:
[email protected]
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